Identifier: williamhsewardst01sewa (find matches)
Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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scarcely less sacred in the eyes of Mussul-mans than the Church of the Holy Sepulchure is in ours, has beenopened to Christian travellers. Even now a careful, though some-what disguised surveillance, is practised over them. The mosquestands in an area enclosed with a high, parapeted wall, overlookingthe valley of Jehoshaphat, and confronting the Mount of Olives.This occupies one-sixth of the land of the entire city. On the east-ern side of this wall is a gate-way, built of marble, called by theMussulmans the Golden Gate, which they are fond of represent-ing as the gate of the temple called Beautiful, but its modernarchitecture does not support that claim. It is only interestingfrom the tradition that it was closed with the Roman conquest, andhas never been reopened. The so-called Mosque of Omar is notsingle. It consists of two distinct mosques, placed at some distancefrom each other—the one here named Kubbet-es-Suhkrah, or theDome of the Rock, commonly called the Mosque of Omar, and
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THE MOSQUE OF OMAE. 591 the Mosque-el-Aksa. Though differing entirely from the Churchof the Holy Sepulchre, the Mosque of Omar is not less unique andpeculiar in its consecrated antiquities. Twelve hundred years ago,

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